The Apocalypse Explosion, also known as the "Wang Gong Factory Explosion", was a mysterious explosion event that occurred in Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
At 9:00 a.m. on the sixth day of the sixth month of may in the sixth year of the Apocalypse (9:00 a.m. on May 30, 1626), the sky in Beijing was unusually bright. In an instant, all kinds of strange five-colored chaotic clouds surged in the sky, and only an earth-shattering loud noise was heard, east to Shunchengmen Avenue, north to Punishment Street, within a radius of 23 miles, instantly flattened to the ground.
Due to the huge disaster, the cause of this explosion is unknown, and the phenomenon is strange, which can be called unprecedented in ancient times. Therefore, the "Apocalypse Big Bang" and the "Dead Hill Incident" in ancient India, the "Tunguska Explosion" in Siberia, Russia, and called the world's three unsolved mysteries.
After the incident, many books recorded the tragic and strange situation at that time. According to the record, "more than 20,000 people were either killed or injured, and countless people with broken arms, broken feet, and broken heads were countless, and in an instant, the corpses were everywhere, a mess, and it was unbearable to see." In the area of Wang Gong Factory, the ground cracked 13 zhang, and the fire soared into the sky. From Tongzhou in the east to Miyun and Changping in the north, there was thunder everywhere, and countless houses and buildings were destroyed. Under the impact of the huge explosion, the trees and bricks and tiles all rose up in the air and disappeared into the wind and clouds.
"The wounded are naked, naked, somehow", and "the dead are naked". It's so strange, how can clothes disappear in an instant? Most of the clothes in the Ming Dynasty were cotton, and the fire point of normal cloth was between 270 ° and 300 °. That is to say, these naked survivors have not been burned after experiencing 270 ° -300 °, which is incredible. It also cast a mysterious color on the big explosion.
Not only did the common people suffer the disaster, but the civil and military officials and the large and small figures in the palace all underwent a great and violent shaking, and more than 2,000 craftsmen who were working in the Forbidden City at that time were shocked from the tall scaffolding, and the flesh and blood were blurred and unbearable to see. The elephants in the emperor's honor guard escaped because of their fright, roaming the streets, trampling on the people, and killing and injuring countless people.
So what was the Carpenter Emperor doing when the Big Bang happened? The carpenter Emperor Tianqi was eating a lot in the Qianqing Palace, the hall suddenly shook, the emperor threw down the bowl and chopsticks and got up and went straight to the Jiaotai Hall, the speed was so fast, the internal attendants did not have time to keep up for a while, only a martial arts personal bodyguard supported him, but when he reached the Jianji Hall, there were tiles falling from the air. The guard was smashed in the head and burst open, screaming for his life. The terrified Emperor of the Apocalypse ran to the Jiaotai Hall alone, hid under the table in the main hall and was terrified, the main hall of the Qianqing Palace was seriously damaged, the room was in a mess, all the eunuchs who served the emperor to breakfast were killed, none of them were spared, and even the crown prince Zhu Cijiong, who was not yet one year old, was smashed to death in the palace.
It is said that before the Apocalypse Big Bang, there were many strange celestial phenomena, from the beginning of the Apocalypse 4 years in Beijing began to drought, until the Apocalypse 5 years of drought continued, to the first half of the big bang half a month of the weather was unusually cold, the frost was unusually severe, may actually "white dew trees like cotton, not scattered in the day" scene, which paved the way for the horror of the big bang.
Until the big bang, for more than 400 years, people have different opinions about the causes of the explosion, and the following small daily combing through several widely circulated theories:
1. Explosives in the gunpowder warehouse. This claim is the most widely circulated. Because the location of the explosion, there is a warehouse near the Wang Gong Factory for the Ministry of Works to manufacture and store gunpowder. Everyone knows that gunpowder is flammable and explosive. However, according to later estimates, the power of the explosion was about 10,000 to 20,000 tons of yellow explosives TNT, but the normal gunpowder reserve in the warehouse at that time was 1,000 tons, and the productivity was low at that time, and the production of black powder obviously could not reach this power.
2. Meteorite falls. According to the historical records at that time, there was a roar outside the sky, but when the hurricane was seen, there was fire inside, which was a phenomenon of meteorite falling.
3. Earthquakes trigger explosions. The Beijing area has always had frequent earthquakes, and there were more than 100 large and small earthquakes in the Ming Dynasty alone. Although the official did not explicitly issue a document at that time to determine that it was an earthquake, the various signs before and after the big explosion have many similarities with the phenomena before and after the earthquake.
In addition, it is not excluded that some people deliberately exaggerated the incident. At that time, there were many people who were dissatisfied with the apocalypse emperor doing carpentry work all day and ignoring the government. Because in ancient times, when science was not developed, people believed that the emperor would have a celestial warning. Afterwards, everyone was talking about the fact that because the emperor was obsessed with carpentry and neglecting the government, which led to the eunuch dictatorship, the appointment of traitors, the murder of loyal subjects, the frequent occurrence of unjust, false and wrong cases, and the people's lack of livelihood, which caused the heavens to punish the Ming Dynasty, this bizarre explosion occurred. Emperor Mingxi also felt weak in his heart, issued a decree on his own, accepted the "warning from heaven to the emperor", complied with the will of the people and the requests of the civil and military officials, revitalized the imperial program, and allocated gold from the national treasury to relieve the victims.
In 1986, more than 20 groups, including the Geological Society of Beijing, used modern scientific knowledge and means to conduct an in-depth discussion of the big bang, but unfortunately each point of view did not present irrefutable evidence, and finally failed.
Hundreds of years have passed since the "Great Explosion of the Apocalypse", and the traces of the explosion of that year have disappeared, and the city of Beijing is peaceful and prosperous. Still, the explosion haunts historians and scientists alike. Perhaps the ancient people knew very little about science, so they exaggerated its mysterious and eerie elements. What is certain, however, is that the horror of this big explosion can be called unprecedented in ancient times.
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